Author: Robert Folkestone WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Shakespeare in fiction, drama, poetry, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Shakespeare and His Friends Or, "The Golden Age" of Merry England
Author: Robert Folkestone WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Shakespeare in fiction, drama, poetry, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Shakspeare and his Friends; or, the Golden Age of Merry England. A novel. By R. F. Williams
Author: Robert Folkestone WilliamsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Corpse as Text
Author: Thea TomainiPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Between 1700 and 1900, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries, who constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past. Between 1700 and 1900, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were stereotyped, idealised, and held as a standard by which the present time could be measured. Various figures in politics, academia, and the church pointed to historical persons such as Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell as icons whose lives, deaths and corpses illustrated the victories of English Protestantism, the values of Monarchism (or Republicanism), and the superiority of the English culture and its language. In particular, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries. They constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past. These 'texts' accompanied and enhanced the traditional texts of chronicle, literature, and epitaph. This study explores the cooperation of ideology and aesthetic, the paradox of allure and revulsion, and the uncanny attraction to death. In each case there is a desire for the dead to speak in a contemporary voice; each historical personage becomes symbolic of larger aspects of the contemporary culture. The discourse of the noble body in death is reconfigured to validate English nationalist ideals and to establish the past as a Golden Era of unimpeachable superiority. It was not enough simply to study the lives and deaths of historical figures. Itwas necessary to disinter the corpses, engage physically with the dead, and experience the discourse of validation. THEA TOMAINI is Associate Professor of English (Teaching) at the University of Southern California.
Catalogue de Livres Anciens Et Modernes
Author: Charles PorquetPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library
Author: Astor LibraryCatalogue or alphabetical index
Author: New York city, Astor librPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library
Author: Publications of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Author: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (U.S.).Publisher:
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Category : Scandinavian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publications of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Scandinavian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Includes Proceedings of the Society.
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